products decorator after i dominated the swimming team she asked me to join the swim team becky was a role model the boys and girls has helped me plan for my future whether teaching kids how to float or helping others through the club i explore my option and think about the impact i want to make an generations the don fisher is not only a shine i didn't new building but inspiring space giving kids access to the technology and arts and competition in the swimming pool a whole lot closer to the homes of many members hopefully in don fisher who is a strong supporter the memory and why the club was

closed to his heart is an honor to have this club named after him on behalf of all the kids i'd like to thank the board the fisher family and the donors who made this dream a reality and now i'd like to invite rob back on stage (clapping.) >> all right. so fortunately, this is the last time you'll hear from me we say are a couple of awards this is important so different folks who have done amazing work in opening the clubhouse i sometimes forget to thank them i'll be short i'm going to get some help my daughter my help as well

is there are any drool on the framed it's my daughters fault the first person i want to unfortunately, i spend more time talking about her scombren headed up the office of economic workforce development i got to know her unfortunately jen passed away in december and amazing woman one of the reigns we got this piece of property basis a thought projects in the market octavia master plan we asked for the boys and girls club to be on the site would district attorney you think she said that was great i was a long process but jen was a champion and smart and dedicated woman had who died way, way too young i want to remember jen max and

thank you her you know for what she did to make this possible so on a lighter note i want to recognize jeff who headed up the mayor's office of economic workforce development but (clapping.) - - i think what we'll do come up when i call our name thank you for all who made that that possible. >> deindividual was amazing worked with jessie for a number of years (clapping) da individual did the heavy lifting so da individual thanks for your perseverance da in a if

i've missed you a lawyer in town that does entitlement work she was amazing i want to make sure she get our plaque and our architect on site was a guy by the name of david if you can come up david thank you for all your work (clapping) david is looked at after every daily in this building i appreciate it i don't know if the navy guys left but is tom in the room? okay. so tom is our onsite supervisor on the project and tom has worked very, very hard to make this project and fred our project manager thank you fred for your work to make this

go (clapping.) arne is a board member arne come on up accident the heavy lifting on the tax credit program this is the second deal i've done and still don't understand it (clapping) so arne all pro bono did a ton of work i don't know if this person is here glen did an amazing job i can't thank glen enough bobby headed up the fillmore foundation (clapping) gap incorporated their foundation and leadership in a

million dollars contribution to this clubhouse i asked him to do something i didn't know it was going to be that big (clapping.) so, now a couple of folks on any staff who i leaned on in all sorts of ways and impressed it's mr. toliver thank you so much come on up please (clapping) thank god i did my speech before you maxine wilson thank you for all you do for the organization (clapping) harold love with the overseeing of this clubhouse and the house in sunnyvale (clapping) maxine has been with me for 13

years and harding for 10 years those two have done a terrific job and opened up the building go in hunters point with jane next two people i want to acknowledge first a guy you've heard his name this is the staff member that probably was the one i turned to most often for the design he heads up our citywide sports program and the basketball program he went to the clubhouse and boy of the year in '86 i want to say and made his legendary in the city with hits commitment for the program notre dame thank you for your work in designing the building

>> (clapping) so the next young man is someone i'm proud of i've known since he was 19 years old you've heard supervisor breed mention him come on up derrick i'll talk about you with while you come up. >> (clapping) >> so derrick grew up right down the street and was in the clubhouse and been an awesome championship champion when i hired him to get the word 0 out in the community harvard and maxine put their heads adopt in running the organization and derrick has been awesome i'm so proud of you and love the credit you give to the boy and girl boys and girls but that appreciate all you do.

(clapping.) and so last but not least is delores fisher doris may not come to the stage if you don't want to we'll come to you so doris thank you for alu all you've done doris calls me all the time with great ideas how to advance the bottom lines she's a very, very committed to our work and in all ways we as a city are trying to surrounded our kids so doris it's to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote honor to have your husband's name in the club and your general reiterate and his generosity made all this happen and i love our interactions you're a strong woman you're an incredibly brilliant woman i appreciate you all you do i'm

coming to you (clapping) here we go 1 2, 3 here we go 1 2, 3. (clapping.) just to be clear mayor ed lee we're not failing to acknowledge you, you come up last night in the program so hopefully hopefully we're going to fit this under the wire

i know the mayors on a tight timeline next is the youngest son john fisher that served on our board find governors and moved to the trustee he and his brother bob serve on the broouts thank you, john for your support for the organization and thank you for your willingness to speak (clapping.) >> wow. it's quite an honor to be here and to speak on behalf of our family you guys met my mom and billy and my brother bob and sister-in-law and john it is truly a family affair and you know, i look at those pictures

behind me the swimmer in the middle is reminds me of how important swimming was to our dad and just how important the boys and girls club were to him as well obviously many, many people to thank rob what you've 34rishd for the angle of thirty is truly a miracle and we're just to lucky to have you running the boys and girls club and an amazing director and wanting. (clapping.) we are so excited to have mayor ed lee and scott taylor 6th district at large and chief suhr and all our youth speakers were tremendous thank you as well as

spencer thank you very much i also want to give special thanks to mr. calendar the fibrosis and the clarndz go back a long way barbara son bruce was and is one of my closely friends we started to go to school when we were 5 i think and it's great he's here as well and you know, i wanted to also give a special thanks to the gap you know gap and columbia park is one of the boys and girls club in san francisco go way back and in fact they go back to the gaps founding in 1969 and i brought my dad's book don't worry about i won't read the whole thing want to point out in the book when you look at in the index there's 9 pages devoted to

the bmgz and on four devoted to me it's nice so see how he placed things of importance obviously my dad is not here today but in spirit to thank you and tell you how proud but in his own words those are a few things he said my first few years of fundraising impressed me spurring their director chuck conley to invite me to join the board of directors in 1963 i was honored i've never forgot one meeting at the lunch of the board the director tould told rr78 which us the club had a

major deficit we don't have those anywhere i'll give a lot one guy said the next challenged said i'll give the same amount it went around the table they came to me wow, i couldn't give $0.05 i didn't have any money it wasn't until the gap went public many 1976 i got my hands on a substantial that i could contribute i felt embraced but before i could say anything one of the leenlz said let take care of talking to don at the end of the meeting i couldn't have been more appreciative how he took me off the hooky replaced the group

to see columbia park continue i stated on the board until today to do any part to maximize the influence in the beginning i could only add my thinking and energy to make things work better and 1ru67b8 as my resources grew i had more ways to contribute when rob came with bob emry and rocky to our family and said they wanted to name the club after our dad, i just can't tell you kind of what it meant to all of us this is something again my dad had been involved with since he was 35 years old it was in many respect the most important thing he was involved in and meant

everything to him san francisco meant everything to him it's where he was born and raised his family and grew his company with our. mom and being able to give back to support the boys and girls club of san francisco meant everything to him on behalf of our family i just want to thank you all for everything you've done to support the park and the don fisher clubhouse and support of the boys and girls club of san francisco thank you (clapping) >> wow. thank you, john so it's my honor to introduce the mayor of the great city of san francisco and really good friend of the boys and girls

club mayor ed lee you've been terrific in every way and the number of times you've supported the boys and girls club tent is amazing so if you want to say no. we'll miss you but give you a pass mayor ed lee was out as supervisor breed last week with the attorney general holderer come out to hetch hetchy thanks to our participating with the police department and had a discussion mayor ed lee thank you for your all you do in the way you lead the city. >> thank you for the support of boys and girls club

(clapping). >> rob thank you very much for that about how far beautiful student designed award i love those are their original and mean more to me i know i'm between you and the ribbon cutting and the use of this gym i'm going to be short no less appreciative and all the speakers before me let me begin rob said as i walked in he said god i must be tired of me i'm not tried of you and others anytime i get together with you and supervisor breed that means something good is happening in the city you're absolutely

right. i know that attorney general holder is not able to say this in public but he did i have to admit he said the visit in san francisco at the willie mayors clubhouse of boys and girls was the best of all his visits because it was in a true deems of what it means to build community trust and he was going around every portion of the country trying to find the answer answer he could bring back to the president and the answer bring back to scores of other cities around this country how do you build community trustee found if it in the willie maze center he put a basketball through 9 hoop what he saw was something our chief led and the

community leaders and kids a try relationship where cadets are leon how to be police officers are learning how to also create relationships with our youth at the very same time it isn't about being a police officer and then a good person in the community but both coming together to form of the character of the officer when the y0ug9 feel the character they in turn compliment the character building that was right here you know, i think he felt that he certainly expressed his feeling of that i know we now have a champion that's going to spread the word we do it right here in san francisco this is what the boys and girls club means to all of us that's just one clubhouse we have at least a dozen you have this

brand new one that is appropriately named with don's tricked i'll is you don't think in the chronicling of our dad and moms work one of the things i find the most enlightening is that you know those days i'm talking about philanthropy and trying to get those who have suddenly become overnight resources, if you will and trying to convince them to be you know understanding of people like who don and doris fisher are and the charles swabs of the world and the benny hoff's and sdooushgsz all those wonderful people that led the way and the thing i find the most

enlightening governor jerry brown is don was on the board of the boys and girls club 6 years before he and doris started the gap i think that's what you are saying was that you don't have to be corporately successful in order to show your commitment to people you care about and i think all of us can reach into our own lives and you know, i was an attorney before i became mayor i didn't have to become mayor to love people and create those relationships this is what the boys and girls club is drawing together because no matter where you come from in all you are walks of life our successful if you put people first and in this clubhouse the

newness of this place will ultimately be blended with the neighborhood very soon but what the youth that come through here with all the things that spencer is going to do and you'll the staff is going to do is that they're to create new relationships with you you're going to have new things to learn about users and about each other and then about our community and relationships this is what the boys and girls club stand for is building those relationships and you know rob i can't say that more than enough not only when we integrated when i think about the boys and girls club but those last most impressive seven years that the broouts has put together our volunteers and

fundraiser have done a tremendous jou job not only about the money but leading with the heart and the personal commitment that cases everything 80 everybody to truly say i want to give and be a part of that that is what the effective board do you get the chief on it he didn't go to a lot of boards 234i8s they're truly there he has to be on the ground doing good work i'll glad with we have allocate members the community i've encouraged them to be the members of the board of directors because it heeds leads not when you become successful but where your matter is first and when you lead like that your

successful this is my way of saying to doris and the kids of the family your gone good really good for the city we feel it and appreciate that the way we horn honor it is that kids when you and your friends gain friendships and the relationships we want to have with the willie maze in the mission area and all the other clubhouses that when you're ready we're going to do our job and create those jobs for you in the city you're going to have the best jobs you'll have the character building and you'll have the friends of mine and relationships then you're getting the skill stewart's sets one of the lovely things about this place. >> have to design thinking studio what is that going to do more for our kids to welcome them in and when you're ready

we're going to be ready we're going to welcome you going into the best jobs the world can have right here in san francisco that's my job to make sure that i get thousands of jobs for you that's the reward we get because london and i know that is better to be in here than in a car being a victim of something that happens you can't control that's why we've got to get the word out here is better than most places you'll feel the love of the city like don and doris and the entire family with that background and that commitment i want to present rob to you and to the board of directors on behalf of the city that this is an appropriate time to declare this to be don fisher clubhouse

day in san francisco. (clapping.) >> okay. thelation thing originating a granted shot so the staff is helping me someone is moving the podium i think carl maybe james and tom you can help tom?

maria sue is the director for the department of the youth we've been leader and maria urge in the photo everyone in the front right now is in the photo and i believe derrick is in it and correct me if i am wrong thank you. >> are we doing a count down. >> 3 2 1. >> clap your hands.

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